After I Do

by Taylor Jenkins Reid

“Why do you kids act like I’ve never made a meal?”

My adult children remind me often that I forgot to add sugar to the pumpkin pie one year. Just once! But I hear about it every holiday.

Sometimes you should just take the potatoes and say thank you and then throw them in the trash when Mom’s not looking.

“Grandma read an article that says white sugar is linked to cancer.” “OK,” I say. “So I’m going to guess that Mom is insisting that all of the desserts you make be sugar-free.”

Rachel laughs. “No!” she says. “I love that she’s cancer-free, I’m just not sure why that means I have to make sugar-free pumpkin pie.”

This is really why I forgot the sugar in the pumpkin pie.